I am (slowly) adding audio to all of my online presentations and here is the first.
Sacking the Necropolis: how 100 Peruvian mummy textiles ended up in Sweden
Posted on 9 June 2014
“Sweden Returns Ancient Andean Textiles to Peru“. Now that is a headline I like to see.
‘God is dead and doesn’t watch’: Easter week tomb robbing on Peru’s north coast
Posted on 20 April 2014
Easter Week: the traditional time of grave robbing on Peru’s north coast.
Wrongs and rights at the National Gallery of Australia
Posted on 8 March 2014
Positive international partnership brings Peruvian gold and praise; absurd denial of wrong-doing in stolen idol case brings resounding criticism.
The realities of auction catalogue analysis
Posted on 17 February 2014
Last year there was a big rumble-grumble about Sotheby’s Paris’ sale of a portion of the Barbier-Mueller collection of Pre-Columbian antiquities.
Sipán: A case-study of circumventing cultural property regulation
Posted on 22 October 2013
Last month the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime invited me to Vienna
Antiquities dealer Leonardo Patterson arrested in Spain
Posted on 12 April 2013
Antiquities dealer, smuggler, and twice (at least) convicted felon Leonardo Patterson has been arrested in Spain
So they sold that Barbier-Mueller stuff over the weekend
Posted on 25 March 2013
Sotheby’s finished up their Barbier-Mueller sale of pre-Columbian antiquities and it went, roughly, as expected.
The collection’s issues: Sotheby’s Paris Barbier-Mueller sale 2
Posted on 4 March 2013
In this post I want to talk a little bit about the (very) little that I know about the Barbier-Mueller collection.
The Sotheby’s sale of the Barbier-Mueller Collection: waxing and waning on Peruvian law.
Posted on 3 March 2013
Peru is attempting to recover 67-ish archaeological objects
Thoughts on Sotheby’s Paris’ Barbier-Mueller Collection sale, in three parts
Posted on 3 March 2013
I have been putting off posting about this subject but, as I am starting to receive emails about it
Spain to ‘restore’ silver from Odyssey Marine case to Bolivia…but why?
Posted on 13 November 2012
Many of you have been following the odyssey of Odyssey Marine for some time.